Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet Helicon Ensemble

The first and the only one in the world!

KGBL is also the musical educational institution where the idea of the new instruments was born as well as is the pioneer on the education of these splendid new brass instruments. In 2012, after eight years of intensive research, development and cooperation with musicians of at least four European countries led by prof. Igor Krivokapič, an eminent music instrument maker from Germany - Wenzel Meinl GmbH, finally constructed a brand new family of brass instruments - the New Helicons. After almost two centuries of invention of valves and research in constructing, a consistent theory of acoustics has been successfully applied to a whole new family of wide bore conical brass instruments. The six new instruments from soprano down to contrabass are a genuine but decisive step in the evolution of an ancient concept based on golden ratio.

Members of our Ensemble are:

Irena Nadler, Vidor Krivokapič and Bruno Žižmund on Soprano Helicon
Gal Šoukal Avsec and Vanja Kranjec on Alto Helicon
Bratko Krivokapič on Tenor Helicon
and
Daniel Kožica Brzović and Janez Žnidaršič on Bass Tuba or Bass Helicon

Come and listen to them on I.E.T. Festival 2015 in Atlanta USA

camera: Kaja Lomovšek and Mihael Žveglič
editing: Kaja Lomovšek